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Architecture books onlineIntroducing… our broad range of books on Architecture, Photography, Art Forms, Film TV & Radio, Dance and Performing Arts, Music and History of Art. In our Film TV & Radio section, we have many other sub-genres such as Books That Inspired Movies including Gone Girl, The Enigma, Fifty Shades of Grey and Foxcatcher. Our Music section includes biographies and sheet music of famous musicians past and present, international and Irish – Elvis, Taylor Swift, David Bowie, Bob Geldof, Ed Sheeran, One Direction, Bono and many more.

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Art & Architecture

Paperback. From the years 2004 to 2008, Beijing and Shanghai witnessed the construction of an extraordinary number of new buildings, many of which were designed by architectural firms overseas. This title scrutinizes the growing phenomenon of transnational architecture and its profound effect on the development of urban space. Num Pages: 240 pages, 18 halftones, 4 maps, 15 tables. BIC Classification: 1FPC; 3JMC; AM; JFFS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 15. Weight in Grams: 340.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Number of pages
240
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226709819
ISBN
9780226709819
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 42.99
€ 33.29

Paperback. In the mid-1800s a utopian movement to rehabilitate the insane resulted in a wave of publicly funded asylums - many of which became unexpected centers of cultural activity. This work prompts us to reflect on what our society can learn from a generation that urgently and creatively tried to solve the problem of mental illness. Num Pages: 240 pages, 14 halftones. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JH; AN; HBTB; MBPK. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 155 x 21. Weight in Grams: 402.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
University Of Chicago Press
Number of pages
240
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226709642
ISBN
9780226709642
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 37.99
€ 29.52

Paperback. This work explores the popular Catholic musical ensembles of southeastern Brazil known as Folias de Reis (companions of kings).Focusing on urban folias, Suzel Ana Reily shows how participants use the ritual journeys and musical performance to create sacred spheres set apart from the everyday. Series: Chicago Studies in Ethnomusicology. Num Pages: 240 pages, 19 halftones, 6 musical examples. BIC Classification: 1KLSB; AVGD; JHMP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 23. Weight in Grams: 454.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
240
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226709413
ISBN
9780226709413
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 40.99
€ 31.41

Paperback. Argues that preoccupation with vision as a key to religious knowledge profoundly affected a broad range of late medieval works. This title explores key religious buildings throughout Europe to reveal how their grand designs supported this profusion of images that made visible the signs of scripture. Translator(s): Whittall, Mary. Num Pages: 392 pages, 85 halftones. BIC Classification: ACK; AGR. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 23. Weight in Grams: 522.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Edition
1st
Number of pages
392
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226706078
ISBN
9780226706078
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 40.99
€ 31.41

Paperback. Num Pages: 248 pages, 33 halftoens, 4 line drawings, 25 musical examples, 12 tables. BIC Classification: AVGC9; AVH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 244 x 164 x 18. Weight in Grams: 414.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Number of pages
248
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226703909
ISBN
9780226703909
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 40.99
€ 31.41

Paperback. By relating biography to the cultural and musical contours of contemporary American life, Ronald M. Radano observes jazz practice as part of the complex interweaving of postmodern culture. Radano accomplishes this by analyzing the creative life of Anthony Braxton. Num Pages: 336 pages, 24ill. BIC Classification: 3JJP; AVGJ; AVGK; AVRN; BGF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 157 x 18. Weight in Grams: 481.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1994
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
336
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226701967
ISBN
9780226701967
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 37.99
€ 29.52

Paperback. Frank Lloyd Wright's Larkin Building has become an icon of modern architecture. This work is a study of this building. Illustrated with over hundred photographs, floor plans, maps, and diagrams, it provides a record of how the building was conceived, built, evaluated, and demolished in what has been called a tragic loss for American architecture. Num Pages: 204 pages, 103 halftones, 15 line drawings. BIC Classification: AMG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 219 x 200 x 13. Weight in Grams: 492.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Edition
New ed
Number of pages
204
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226699080
ISBN
9780226699080
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 40.99
€ 31.49

Paperback. What is so "primitive" about primitive art? And how do we dare to use our standards to judge? Drawing on a mixture of sources, this text explores the cultural arrogance implicit in Westerners' appropriation of non-Western art. Num Pages: 176 pages, 13 halftones. BIC Classification: ACBK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 153 x 229 x 22. Weight in Grams: 298.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
176
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226680675
ISBN
9780226680675
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.99
€ 25.76

Paperback. This work traces the development of country music and its institutionalization from Fiddlin' John Carson's pioneering recordings in Atlanta in 1923 to the posthumous success of Hank Williams. The book also explores what it means to be authentic within popular culture. Num Pages: 320 pages, 37 halftones. BIC Classification: 1KBB; AVGL; HBT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 161 x 233 x 36. Weight in Grams: 622.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1999
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Edition
New ed
Number of pages
320
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226662855
ISBN
9780226662855
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 36.99
€ 28.58

Hardcover. Improvisation is usually either lionized as an ecstatic experience of being in the moment or disparaged as the thoughtless recycling of cliches. Eschewing both of these orthodoxies, this title considers the improvised dimension of philosophy itself in order to elaborate an innovative concept of improvisation. Num Pages: 200 pages. BIC Classification: AB; HPN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UF) Further/Higher Education. Dimension: 60 x 90 x 20. Weight in Grams: 363.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
200
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226662787
ISBN
9780226662787
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 94.93
€ 78.49

Paperback. When the avant-gardist John Cage died, he was already the subject of many interviews, memoirs and discussions of his contribution to music. This text includes a revisionist treatment of the way Cage himself has composed and been "composed" in America. Editor(s): Perloff, Marjorie; Junkerman, Charles. Num Pages: 296 pages, 20 halftones. BIC Classification: 1KBB; AVGC6; AVH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 200 x 166 x 20. Weight in Grams: 481.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1994
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
296
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226660578
ISBN
9780226660578
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 36.99
€ 28.58

Hardcover. Did portraits exist in the medieval era? This title challenges the canonical account of the invention of modern portrait practices, offering a case against the tendency of the scholarship to identify late medieval likenesses of historical personages as 'the first modern portraits'. Num Pages: 400 pages, 96 halftones. BIC Classification: 1DDF; 3H; ACK; AGHF. Category: (UF) Further/Higher Education; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 30. Weight in Grams: 635.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
400
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226658797
ISBN
9780226658797
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 71.20
€ 59.65

Paperback. This examination of the flourishing of Futurist aesthetics in European art and literature of the twentieth century, offers considerations of futurist work from Russia to Italy. Num Pages: 336 pages, Illustrations (some col.). BIC Classification: ACXD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 153 x 230 x 14. Weight in Grams: 476.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
336
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226657387
ISBN
9780226657387
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 37.99
€ 29.52

Hardcover. During the 1920s and '30s, Franz Taibosh - whose stage name was Clicko - performed in front of millions as one of the stars of the Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey Circus. This title presents the story of Taibosh's journey from boyhood on a small farm in South Africa to top billing as one of the travelling World's Fair Freaks. Num Pages: 256 pages, 24 halftones, 1 map. BIC Classification: ASZ; BGF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 20. .
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226647418
ISBN
9780226647418
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 74.76
€ 62.48

Hardcover. Throughout human history, people have imagined inanimate objects to have intelligence, language, and even souls. This book examines ideas about simulated movement and inorganic life during and after the turn of the twentieth century - a period of great technical innovation whose effects continue to reverberate today. Num Pages: 440 pages, 10 colour plates, 164 halftones. BIC Classification: ACX; AM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 259 x 189 x 29. Weight in Grams: 1288.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Number of pages
440
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226645681
ISBN
9780226645681
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 94.93
€ 78.49

Paperback. Num Pages: 136 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: AB; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 206 x 136 x 10. Weight in Grams: 176.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
136
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226639673
ISBN
9780226639673
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 31.99
€ 24.82

Paperback. The dark shadows and offscreen space that force us to imagine violence we cannot see. The real slaughter of animals spliced with the fictional killing of men. The missing countershot from the murder victim's point of view. This book argues that such images, or absent images, distill how the murder scene challenges and changes film. Num Pages: 384 pages, 187 halftones. BIC Classification: APFA. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 15. Weight in Grams: 413.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Number of pages
384
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226617954
ISBN
9780226617954
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 42.99
€ 33.29

Paperback. A timeless tale of love, lust, and politics, "Tosca" is one of the most popular operas ever written. In "Tosca's Rome," Susan Vandiver Nicassio explores the surprising historical realities that lie behind Giacomo Puccini's opera and the play by Victorien Sardou on which it is based. Num Pages: 360 pages, 40 halftones, 12 line drawings, 1 table, 14 musical examples. BIC Classification: 1DST; AVGC9; HBJD; HBLL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 227 x 151 x 22. Weight in Grams: 506.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Edition
New ed
Number of pages
360
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226579726
ISBN
9780226579726
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 27.99
€ 23.01

Paperback. Num Pages: 302 pages, , black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FKA; AVGH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230 x 153 x 17. Weight in Grams: 363.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1990
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Number of pages
302
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226575162
ISBN
9780226575162
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 47.99
€ 37.37

Paperback. Illustrating the practices and processes of musical improvisation, this text includes contributions by 17 scholars and improvisers. It offers a history of research and an overview of the different approaches to the topic that can be used, ranging from cognitive study to detailed musical analysis. Editor(s): Nettl, Bruno; Russell, Melinda. Series: Chicago Studies in Ethnomusicology. Num Pages: 420 pages, 6 halftones, 3 line drawings, 80 musical examples. BIC Classification: AVA; JFSL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 226 x 152 x 27. Weight in Grams: 668.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1998
Publisher
University Of Chicago Press
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226574110
ISBN
9780226574110
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 47.99
€ 37.06

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